tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post6015366456418378168..comments2024-03-17T05:36:26.059-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: Nancy Finn, author of "e-Patients Live Longer", openly calls for unethical medical experimentation without consentRoy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-81978998822697700762012-03-18T12:41:25.456-04:002012-03-18T12:41:25.456-04:00Afraid said...
The problem isn't medicine, it...Afraid said...<br /><br /><i>The problem isn't medicine, its government.</i><br /><br />It's medicine, too; physicians do nothing when an issue that can severely impact patients is usurped by, of all people, computer technicians.<br /><br />The physicians who do nothing perhaps deserve their fate; however, patients injured or killed do not deserve theirs.<br /><br />-- SSInformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-91792577121586590332012-03-16T13:56:39.980-04:002012-03-16T13:56:39.980-04:00Can you just imagine the political machinations sh...Can you just imagine the political machinations should the FDA step up and enter the fray? Polarization could go either way depending on who is in the white house at the time.<br /><br />"I was for it before I was against it." was the most telling political quote in the last half century or more. I don't even recall if it was said by a republican or democrat, and the specific Afraidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-19273704439111436112012-03-15T23:30:00.995-04:002012-03-15T23:30:00.995-04:00In medicine, the FD and C Act was passed to protec...In medicine, the FD and C Act was passed to protect the US citizens from exactly what is standard operating procedure by the (H)IT industry. The method as described by Finn is not even ok for non medical software but is life threatening when used for medical devices.<br /><br />The FDA must act to stop this now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-45898767439554776812012-03-15T16:18:41.830-04:002012-03-15T16:18:41.830-04:00Stefan V. Pantazi writes:
I find this position to...Stefan V. Pantazi writes:<br /><br /><i>I find this position too extreme. There is much to argue and to discuss. How much trial? How much error? How much learning as we go?</i><br /><br />In my view protection of patient rights in medical experimentation is never "too extreme" if calling on the long established principles for ethical conduct of human subjects experimentation to be InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-36723418123276328052012-03-15T12:28:44.326-04:002012-03-15T12:28:44.326-04:00Scott,
I find this position too extreme. There is...Scott,<br /><br />I find this position too extreme. There is much to argue and to discuss. How much trial? How much error? How much learning as we go?<br /><br />Clinical medicine IS about "trial and error", "learn-as-we-go". For example, the very premise of personalized medicine (e.g., pharmacogenomics) is completely at odds with a practice where one prescribes the same dosesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com